The wounded man was rushed to Ben Taub General Hospital. He had been shot in the neck and is expected to survive.

Cannon said the victim told investigators the incident began after he and two friends met two women at a nightclub and they asked the men for a ride their apartment. When they arrived at the complex, the women didn't know the code that opened the locked gate at the parking lot.

Cannon said the group decided to park nearby to wait for another vehicle to enter so they could follow it into the parking area. As they parked, two men ran up to the car. One of them carried a pistol.

Cannon said the robbers ordered everyone to get out of the car. Two of the men got on the ground and had their wallets and cell phones stolen. But the driver put the car in gear and drove away to escape the attackers. The armed robber opened fire on the car, wounding the driver, who lost control of the car and crashed into one of the apartment buildings.

No one in the apartment was injured.

The robbers left after the gunfire. The women also left. Cannon said it is not known if the women left with the robbers, but no woman has contacted police to say there was robbery at the scene.

The wounded man told police, Cannon said, that he believed the women were accomplices in the robbery. He said he thought the women set up him and his friends, telling them to go to the complex where men were waiting to rob them.

The gunman is described as being about 20 years old. He was about 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighed about 140 pounds. He wore a black cap, a black shirt and black pants. No descriptions of the other suspect or the women were available.